CHARLESTOWN, Nevis – VEDEL BROWNE, the man accused of robbing US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer of some $1 000, was today placed on bail to the tune of $100 000.
Information reaching SKNVibes states that Browne appeared at the Nevis High Court charged with armed robbery and his conditional bail was set at $100 000 with two sureties, and he has to report to the Gingerland Police Station six days a week -Monday to Saturday - between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
He was also ordered to surrender all travel documents.
The 28-year-old gardener was charged with the offence on Saturday (Feb. 18) when he turned himself in at the Basseterre Police Station after seeing the publication of his photo in the media as “a person of interest” in the robbery of Justice Breyer.
On Friday (Feb. 17), police had issued a wanted bulletin for Browne of Webbes Ground in Gingerland and, according to Police Press and Public relations Officer Sergeant Stephen Hector, police had “identified and is actively seeking a person of interest [Browne] for questioning with the reported incident which occurred at Justice Breyer’s home in Golden Rock, Nevis on Thursday, February 9, 2012”.
On the morning of February 10 when this media house contacted Assistant Commissioner of Police Robert Liburd, the Officer-in-Charge of the Nevis Division of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force, on the matter, he said that at about 10:20 p.m. on Thursday (Feb 9), a man armed with a black machete and wearing a black shirt, black pants, black shoes and black mask entered the home and demanded money from the judge.
ACP Liburd also said that on receipt of the money, the bandit immediately fled the scene and that no one was injured during the robbery. But he neither disclosed the victim’s identity nor his country of origin, as well as how much how much money the bandit took from him.
The incident had however made headlines on a number of international media houses, including BBC, CNN and Bloomberg, which provided the required information on Justice Breyer.
This incident had led to the presence of a number of FBI agents on the island of Nevis.
The 73-year-old Justice Breyer had been visiting Nevis for over the past 18 years and owns a vacation home at Golden Rock in which he, his wife, Dr. Joanna Breyer, a renowned pediatric psychologist, and two guests were when the robbery occurred.
